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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
Just had a nasty cold and a cough that's not gone but has at least moved into the distance a little.
Post covid booster, but I think I was going down with it already and should have moved the appointment. Just wanted to get it done.
That'll teach me.
Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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Greetings and Welcome to the Fediverse.
Your first mission, should you choose to accept it, is to start finding people to follow.
You really don't have to be super picky right now. You just want to start getting your feed busy so you can start organically finding content.
Additionally, if you've decided to use the Tweetdeck-style advanced interface, make sure to set up one or more columns with hashtags you want to follow! That's another big way people discover content on here!
Mastodon doesn't default to having an in-your-face content algorithm, which does mean that you need to put in a _little_ more work to find stuff you want to engage with. This is a good thing!
Your second mission, of course, is to actually _engage_ with stuff you like, instead of just liking and walking away. Having conversations with "randos" is a lot easier and less awkward on here, and people are more likely to respond to you. Talk to us! Even (especially) if we have a lot of followers! This is how you get the other end of the puzzle (people who follow _you_).
Enjoy your stay and I hope it's safe and cozy <3
RT @ToryFibs
Who would make the best PM
• Starmer 30%
• Sunak 28%
• Neither 42%
Anyone know Neither’s position on a wealth tax on the billionaire class? Asking for a friend.
RT @andrewfeinstein
When authors sent a piece on Margaret Hodge’s profiteering from apartheid South Africa to the Guardian, they strung them along for months before refusing to publish this exposure of a key Corbyn critic as an apartheid profiteer, preventing its publication elsewhere for months https://twitter.com/jmcevoy_2/status/1588609914305646592
The Musk fans disagreeing with this but not actually being able to explain why they disagree with it in this timeline or a treat.
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RT @johniadarola
Elon Musk is single-handedly destroying the myth that the rich are smarter or more talented than the rest of us.
https://twitter.com/johniadarola/status/1588604449857056769
RT @jdportes
Who could have predicted that @afneil/@FraserNelson's Spectator, which has spent the last decade publishing and platforming racists and fascists from the UK, Europe and the US, would use this sort of imagery?
Shocked, shocked, etc.
RT @BareLefter
Wild how absolutely none of the three main parties are suggesting the one thing that would actually save the NHS; building capacity into the system itself with good pay and working conditions to attract and retain staff. https://twitter.com/MichelePaduano/status/1588454849037103105
RT @bmay
Bloody hell this is really magnificent from @asda Chairman Stuart Rose (formerly @marksandspencer)
More of this. Much more. It’s vital that business leaders speak out in this way. Bravo. 👏
RT @johniadarola
Elon Musk is single-handedly destroying the myth that the rich are smarter or more talented than the rest of us.
Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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capitalism and the market economy are such brilliant system in theory, too bad they just don't work for actual human beings
RT @TRyanGregory
Check out all that immunity debt in states that... *checks notes*... didn't have as strict pandemic measures.
RT @LeftUnityParty
Excellent turnout for today’s @pplsassembly protests.
RT @FreefromTorture
BREAKING: Suella Braverman’s cruelty towards refugees caused the crisis at the so-called Manston “processing centre”.
So we just renamed it in her honour
RT @troovus
Remember when the right wing Labour bureaucracy secretly refused to place the Corbyn leadership’s Facebook ads except for a highly targeted campaign that only LOTO’s accounts would see?
RT @brianbeutler
This thing where Republicans can campaign freely, even as they’ve made every Dem campaign event a huge security risk, is the kind of relevant information members of the bothsides media *could* present to consumers in the course of regular election coverage. But they refuse. https://twitter.com/joanwalsh/status/1588879306897657859
RT @DecampDave
So they launch these war games, provoke a bunch of North Korean missiles launches and then say they have to extend the war games because of the missile launches… https://twitter.com/antiwarcom/status/1588359909992976385
Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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Interesting fact of the day: The same effect that cuased light in a prism to split up into different colors is what ultimately caused the first transatlantic telegraphic wire in 1858 to fail.
Morse code is transmitted as on-off signals, effectively square waves. Square waves are in fact made up of many different frequencies. Like in a prism different frequencies move at different speeds through a wire. Therefore as the on-off pulses traveled through the transatlantic telegraph wire the signal spread out like it does in a prism and ultimately the pulses would overlap and be indistinguishable.
The effect was so extreme that it took a message of only 98 words (the first message sent) over 67 minutes to send one way and a whopping 16 hours to confirm the message.
Whitehouse, a doctor with little mathematical understanding, thought he could solve the problem by increasing voltage, which we now know was a futile effort. He increased the voltage to the point he managed to short out the cable entirely and made it useless. However Lord Kelvin had already warned of the problem as was ignored and he came up with the law of squares to describe the problem which later was refined to give us the telegraphers equation. The telegraphers equation is still used today to model feedlines in radio transmitters and receivers.
All the people complaining about Mastodon seem to forgotten how shit Twitter was in the early days. Take your time, calm down, and just be patient. It’s not that hard to understand, it’s just a different way of doing things.
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
